Archiving Soundtrack Pro Projects : .stap files

Hello,
I am fairly new to Soundtrack Pro. I am archiving several projects and I am unsure what to do with the .stap files. Should I keep them or delete them? They are quite large and even larger then the original source WAV files.
Thanks for any information,
Mark

As a general rule, always back-up everything. You never know when you're going to need something, even if it's 10 years later…
However, if you can easily re-create these files exactly at any time without much trouble, then +in that case+ you won't really need them.

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